from the shock and awe dept.
Wargaming.net has released patch 0.6.5 for its flagship game, World of Tanks.
Among the big changes is an entire U.S. Tank Destroyer line from tiers 1 through 9, two new maps and the introduction of the top-tier M46 Patton main battle tank.
from the milestones dept.
Wargaming.net recently announced that World of Tanks has surpassed 3 million registered players!
2 million are now registered in Russia alone, while Europe and the US host over a million players and climbing fast. With the release last month in China, we’re certain that this is just the beginning of World of Tank’s meteoric rise.
“At the very beginning of development for World of Tanks, we were assuming that the maximum number would be around 600,000 players worldwide. Now, we have 2 million registrations in Russia alone, not to mention the Western audience and its immense growth,” said Wargaming.net CEO Victor Kislyi. “With the tremendous number we’ve reached in Russia as well as the dynamics of community growth in Europe and North America, we are looking forward to the many more milestones to come.”
Realm of the Titans alpha officially begins today.
Closed no more are the gates to the DotA-style ActionstrategyRPGing of what has become one of our team’s most anticipated games built in our platform.
Come school us, and we’ll school you back!
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from the hyperbole dept.
The BigWorld-powered World of Tanks MMO has been receiving quite a bit of press attention recently, but this one surprised even us.
Behold the latest development in a long string of awesome emanating from Wargaming Studios in Minsk: La Gargantua.
The massive “treaded fortress” apparently sports a long-range impulse rail turret, mine-laying capabilities, and a host of other yet-to-be-revealed functions.
This news has the BigWorld team questioning a number of its assumptions about reality, but also whether or not this signals a new change in the theme of the until-now period-based tank warfare game. Should we be expecting even more futuristic tech appearing from vortices across the WoT world? Steampunk, anyone?…. anyone?…. Bueller?
Still, rumors suggest that this may be the work of an independent faction or individual using the BigWorld Indie development license.
At the very least, the WoT player community can’t complain any longer about Russian tanks being overpowered. This unprovenonced beast now takes the cake… and basically anything else it wants to take….
Yikes.
La Gargantua
from the mexican standoff dept.
from the holy barbeque dept.
The development team behind Realm of the Titans has just unveiled a new character in its DotA-style RPG/RTS game, built on the BigWorld platform, and published by Aeria Games.
Watch below as Flame Wing dominates the map and tears his enemies asunder with the power of proxy sight and ungodly amounts of arrows.
Should you wish to engage in said tearing and asundering, run over to and sign up for the closed, yet emotionally open beta.
from the D-Day dept.
Wargaming.net just announced an April 12 release date for it’s hit title World of Tanks.
“Our team has been working really hard to create a unique blend of action, strategy, simulation and RPG elements in World of Tanks, and now the moment all fans across the globe have been waiting for is right around the corner”, said Victor Kislyi, CEO of Wargaming.net. “We are delighted to be finally announcing the release date for this ground-breaking title and invite all veteran players and those new to the game to enjoy tense and uncompromising armored warfare on World of Tanks battlegrounds”.
You can sign up now for the North American open beta here, or the European open beta here.
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